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• Pippa_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,856 Disability Gamechanger

  November 2017

  Hi @mommabear52, and welcome to the community!
  
  Citizens' Advice have some great information on SSP and what else you could be entitled to whilst on sick leave - have a read, and if you need any support or advice on pursuing any of the suggestions, just come back to us and we'll do our best to advise. Hope this helps!

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• mansfieldmaid Member Posts: 3 Listener

  November 2017

  Hi. While on sick pay you can claim tax credits as in effect you are still employed. Hope this helps x

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• mommabear52 Member Posts: 4 Listener

  November 2017

  I get tax credits but having to pay by got an ova payment so only get £2.2.3 a week 

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• mansfieldmaid Member Posts: 3 Listener

  November 2017

  But because your income has dropped you can inform them and ask for it to be recalculated on the basis of your sick pay and it should increase your entitlement x

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• mommabear52 Member Posts: 4 Listener

  November 2017

  Oh ok. ..I'll give them a call. .ty 

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• mansfieldmaid Member Posts: 3 Listener

  November 2017

  Your welcome

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• wendy1 Member Posts: 12 Listener

  January 2018

  Hi @mommabear52, can I ask if you got your full wages.  Ive been off work sick and only hot SSP

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• Topkitten Member Posts: 1,263 Pioneering

  January 2018

  SSP is just a figure calculated by your company and an amount they are willing to pay. It bears no relation to your needs and requirements. Anyone on SSP for a reasonable length of time should make enquiries about benefits through the local appropriate channels. The CAB can provide information on such things and, in a more general way, many sites online also do so, just be careful about giving personal information online to unknown companies.
  
  TK
  

  "I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell" - from Wrong side of heaven by Five Finger Death Punch.

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• wendy1 Member Posts: 12 Listener

  January 2018

  Hi @mansfieldmaid, I understand you have to work 30+ hrs to get Tax Credits. In my situation I have earned to much from April 2017 to April 2018 to be awarded anything

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• mommabear52 Member Posts: 4 Listener

  January 2018

  I got full company sick pay and some SSP but now I just get SPP which us due to finish next month...not sure way I'll get then

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• wendy1 Member Posts: 12 Listener

  January 2018

  Hi @mommabear52, thanks for replying to me. Do you if it's law that you get full pay for a certain amount of time

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